an imaginary line around the earth at an equal distance from the North and South PolesThe island is twenty degrees south of the equator.Wordfinderearthclimate,earth,equator,equinox,hemisphere,International Date Line,latitude,map,planet,tropicOxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + equatorcross,straddleprepositionaround the equator,at the equator,close to the equator,…phrasesnorth of the equator,south of the equatorSeefull entrySee related entries:Other geographic regions,The Earth and the atmosphereWord Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis ‘circle equalizing day and night’, from Latin aequare ‘make equal’, from aequus ‘even, level, equal’.Extra examplesThe island is just 80 miles north of the equator.The lake lies exactly on the equator.The sun heats the sea more at the equator than at the poles.in an area near the equator
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